Gold at 2-Week High as Euro Debt & ‘Tail-Risk’ Return The gold price rose sharply against all major currencies on Wednesday morning, touching near-two-week highs against the dollar even as the US currency rose amid fresh European debt and budget concerns. Read more on Resource Investor Gold Seen Nearing “Cyclical Peak”, Rises as Dollar Gains [...]

Wall Street futures gain ahead of payrolls U.S. stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open for Wall Street on Friday, adding to hefty gains on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones futures and Nasdaq futures all up around 0.2 percent by 4.20 a.m. EST. Read more on Reuters via Yahoo! [...]

Brazil Rate Futures Yields Fall on Decline in December Output; Real Drops Yields on Brazilian interest-rate futures contracts fell after industrial output unexpectedly shrank for a second month, easing pressure on the central bank to raise borrowing costs to cool the economy. Read more on Bloomberg Oil rises to on Egypt protests, US jobs report [...]

FBM KLCI Futures Traded Lower At Mid-day KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 (Bernama) — The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) futures contract on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives was traded lower at mid-day Monday on profit-taking activities. Read more on Bernama FBM KLCI Futures Traded Higher In Early Session KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 (Bernama) — The FTSE [...]

Big Upside For Nasdaq If Regulators Push Derivatives Onto Exchanges If regulators force banks to loosen their grip on the derivatives market, exchanges will benefit. Read more on Forbes Out of Lehman’s Ashes Wall Street Gets Most of What It Wants Wall Street’s biggest banks, whose missteps caused a global financial crisis and economic slowdown [...]

Stocks Keep The Santa Spirit For The Week The holiday shortened trading week comes to a close with the markets notching gains. Read more on Forbes U.S. Stock-Index Futures Fluctuate; Bed Bath & Beyond Rises, Micron Falls U.S. stock-index futures fluctuated, indicating that the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will snap a five-day rally, before [...]

MONEY MARKETS-Futures point to higher yields * Technical analysts watching for 98.35 on Dec 2011 Euribor * March 2012 futures imply LIBOR of 1 pct, a 70 bps premium * U.S. Treasury selloff, strong data pushing futures lower * PIMCO raises 2011 growth … Read more on Reuters UK Focus via Yahoo! UK & Ireland [...]

CME Group Announces the Launch of Three Additional E-Micro Forex Futures Contracts CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the launch of three new E-micro Forex futures contracts scheduled for Sunday, December 19, for trade date Monday, December 20. Read more on PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance UPDATE 6-Oil edges [...]

SGX Euro STOXX 50 futures to debut on Dec 6 Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced that the SGX Euro STOXX 50 Index futures and options on futures will start trading on its derivatives market on 6 December. The debut of the US-dollar denominated Euro STOXX 50 futures and options will mark the first time these [...]

Bovespa Stock-Index Futures Advance on Brazil, China Industrial Production Bovespa stock -index futures rose as an unexpected drop in Brazilian manufacturing eased bets for higher borrowing costs, while quickening output in China boosted the outlook for commodities. Read more on Bloomberg ETFsWhat You Need to Know ETFs are often cheaper and more tax efficient than [...]